nope. going to have to correct you there, donald. that is in fact not the law, which is how you ended up in a court of law just yesterday. plus, gaslighting efforts kick into high gear on the right with false equivalencies flying fast and furious all over fox. and later, the great rachel maddow joins me to talk about her amazing new podcast that takes us back in time eerily similar to those we are experiencing today. we begin tonight on donald trump s birthday. he turned 77 years old today. happy birthday you twice indicted, twice impeached found liable for sexual abuse former president! i m sure it s been an interesting one. a day of reflection perhaps on what matters in life like family, good health, community, or not. i mean, this is donald trump we re talking about. so what matters in life are things, gold toilets, celebrity tchotchke collections, gold stuff on the walls in the gold ballroom or the shaquille o neal sneak he bragged about to a wall street journal
Target of a political witch hunt at the hands of marxist regime. i think it s going rigged. we have a rigged country. we have a country that s corrupt. then offered to pay for everyone s food, but knowing trump, he probably left the restaurant holding the bag. he didn t pay the bill. joining us political analyst fern nan armandi and politics in journalism, host of the award with jason johnson podcast, jason johnson, thank you for being here. fernan, i do want to start with you. i was texting you furiously trying to find out what was going on spanish radio, because we know that is a tool oftentimes for misinformation used by republicans. let me play you a little clip. take a listen. what we re seeing here is the type of thing, mr. president, that sadly happens in latin america. an our audience is very aware of it. a lot of people have left their countries because of the lack of democracy.
The eyes of the world, our democracy might be lost and that s the agitation and concern so many millions around the country and around the world are fearing with this slow walking process to bring the perpetrators like trump and others to justice. you know, the thing is, you know, fernan talked about polls. less than half of republicans on january 6th was very violent. 39% according to this latest poll. 52% of republicans say the insurrectionists were protecting democracy. at this point, congresswoman dean, you have right wing media including fox news that is under pinning the big lie and convincing people yeah, the election was stolen even when their own hosts know it wasn t and know that what then happens, they helped instigate shouldn t be happening. you have donald trump s people circulating memos outlining how to steal the election, executing a plan that they named after a